Education
Born in Dublin to an alcoholic father and pious mother, Lennon was educated at Synge Street Columbia Broadcasting System before starting work in a bank, where he also freelanced as a music critic for the Irish Press.
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He also worked for The Guardian newspaper for many years. Based in Paris for The Guardian, Lennon was by assigned by his newspaper to cover the Dublin Film Festival in the mid-1960s. His local friends tried to convince him that Ireland had changed socially and Lennon set out to document these changes.
His investigations though demonstrated the opposite, that censorship, insularity and the dominance of the clergy still prevailed.
He wrote a series of articles as a result and followed this up with which was shot over 16 days on a budget of £20,000. Lennon also wrote for publications such as The Listener, a British Broadcasting Corporation publication.
He died of cancer in 2011.
